20/03/2017 Points West

Tonight there are new lines of enquiry about what could

I want whoever did this to be accounted for.

The Bristol student who went to Syria to join a brutal fight

He now faces charges back home. Today was the first day of spring

but the weather has other ideas, and more wintry feel tomorrow. Details

at the end of the programme. New evidence has just been released

on the BBC's Crimewatch programme, about a young woman who went missing

more than 20 years ago. Sally Ann John vanished

while she was working Here's our Wiltshire

reporter Will Glennon. Sally Ann John was just 23 years

old when she disappeared. Born and brought up in Swindon,

she lived in the Nythe area. She'd been working as a prostitute

near the town centre. But on the 8th of September

1995, she vanished. For almost 20 years she was treated

as a missing person. Then in November 2014

police declared it was now Specialist dogs trained to detect

blood or body parts were deployed. Three men were arrested

but released without charge. Sally Ann's disappearance has been

featured on tonight's BBC They came to tell me

on the Sunday she'd gone missing. It's a horrible feeling,

that your daughter may have Because you can't do anything

about it, you can't do anything. I just want her found,

I really do want her found. Tonight, police presented

new evidence in the case, a postcard allegedly sent

by Sally Ann shortly Detectives don't believe

it was written by her. They're hoping to jog someone's

memory, it just might A big reward, ?25,000,

has been offered for information that leads to a body

or a conviction, as Wiltshire Police try again to solve the mystery

and bring the Sally Ann Will has just been watching that

Crimewatch programme and is in the area where

Sally Ann was last seen. I am on the corner of Alexander

Road, which is a Jameson to Aylesbury Street near Swindon

station. It is here that Sally Ann John disappeared in September 19 95.

Please have never found her body, but the night on the Crimewatch

programme they did reveal some new evidence. The Coast Guard supposedly

sent by her three weeks after she had disappeared. -- postcard.

Detectives believe that wasn't written by Sally Ann John and they

have had handwriting experts examining that postcard. Within the

postcard we have a capital B which is written like an L, where as

amongst all of Sally Ann's reference writing, I didn't find any example

of that. The person who wrote the card may be responsible for the

murder, or they may hold the key to solving it. They may have been

forced to ride the card or misled. The police want to hear from anyone

who knows anything about it all about Sally Ann John.

Rail passengers are being warned to expect long delays

between the West Country and London after a derailment tonight.

It happened just before 6.00pm tonight between

No-one was injured but Network Rail say there was significant damage

to the track and there could be delays for two days.

A lorry driver who killed a young woman from Swindon when he crashed

into her broken-down car has been jailed for four and a half years.

21-year-old Jodie Moss from Swindon was on the A34 in Berkshire.

This footage was taken from the lorry being driven

by Dariusz Tokarczyk shortly before the crash.

A court heard he probably failed to see her hazard lights

A student from Bristol has spoken for the first time

about his decision to go to Syria and fight against

Josh Walker spent six months with Kurdish militia forces.

He was arrested on his return under the Terrorism Act.

He told me his experiences have left him terrified.

This is the YPG or People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia

fighting the so-called Islamic State.

Last summer Josh Walker joined them to work as a translator,

but found himself being handed a gun and joining the action.

One of our snipers saw an Isis member sneaking

We'd had mortars fired at us a few times, and a little bit of

But this was the first like full on attack.

So for the first 30 seconds I was just absolutely terrified.

I mean, I didn't know what exactly to do.

Serving alongside Josh was British volunteer Ryan Lock.

He was killed when reportedly turning a gun on himself to avoid

He was a good laugh, he was, you know

He was pretty brave and he was popular

Like Ryan, many other foreign volunteers with the YPG carried

either a spare bullet or a grenade to use in the event

Luckily I never had to use one, but you know...

Like I said, there's no way I'm letting my mum see images of

me being decapitated broadcast around the world.

You mention drawing a line in the sand and you want to do

something about it, why not join the army?

First I wouldn't be able to go and help the people in Rojava.

I wouldn't be able to choose where I went at all.

I'd have to fight based on the whims of the

politicians of the day and it's a very big,

The YPG are not on the British Government's list

But, at the end of his long journey back to the UK, Josh was arrested

at Gatwick Airport under the Terrorism Act and is

Well Joel Bennathan is a lawyer who works in this area of the law.

I asked him what the legal situation would be with someone who decided

Anyone who goes to a war zone with the view to joining in one way

or another is at real risk of being prosecuted.

The second is, will they be prosecuted?

The answer to can they be prosecuted is almost always yes because English

law has an incredibly wide definition of what

Anyone who picks up a firearm or trained to pick up a firearm

Anyone who picks up a firearm or trains to pick up a firearm

to use or threaten unlawful violence, is engaging

There is no freedom fighter's defence, there is no morality

defence, so it's entirely possible to have a group of armed men

and women in conflict who endure wide support in the West

and in England, yet they will be committing offences under

The second question is, will they be prosecuted is probably

far more interesting with groups like the Free Syrian Army

Because people doing these things abroad can only be prosecuted

with the consent of the Attorney General.

And it would be very surprising, for example, in the case

of the Free Syrian Army, there's a unit trained and armed

by the Americans and it would be very surprising indeed

if our Attorney General agreed that people should be prosecuted

who were fighting under air cover having been trained

So in the future, are there likely to be more cases like this?

There's lots of cases already come through the system of people

going to fight for groups such as Isis and allied

There have been very few cases in the system at all of people

fighting for what we might call the other side.

People fighting for Kurdish groups or people fighting for example

There have been one or two cases about people going off

for different Kurdish groups, engaged in different parts

of that part of the world, but so far I'm fairly confident

there will be no prosecutions of people fighting against Isis

with the Iraqis, with the Kurds with the Free Syrian Army.

Despite the gloomy start there were signs of good weather to come.

I'll leave you now with Ian, who has the forecast.

It has cheered up during the course of the afternoon. It didn't earlier

on as these pictures attest. Tomorrow is a bit of a mixture of

the two. Sunny spells for some of you, but equally some showers as

well. Underpinning all of that it will be noticeably chilly. It is

turning chilly through the course of the night. Temperatures will get

down to about three Celsius. At the moment a few showers around. They

are moving eastwards and there could be more the book -- before the night

is through. Quite quickly showers will start to pack into western

areas. Few of those getting across to the East but particularly in the

afternoon. Some of those showers could have a wintry flavour

particularly over Exmoor. At lower levels, some hail could be possible.

To the west, and more coherent area of rain forming and that will get

its act together overnight and into Wednesday. Temperatures seven to

eight Celsius for most. outlook for Saturday and Sunday is

for something dry and settled, sunny spells but a bit on the cool side.

This week we are starting off with a taste of winter. This is Paul and

maritime air, it has come from a long way north and will push in lots

of showers. The last of any mild air gets swept away with the cloud.

Tonight we have showers mostly across the northern half of the UK,

which will turn wintry and that means more snow, particularly across

Scotland and Northern Ireland, perhaps northern England. With those

temperatures it is not just snow that is a concern, it is icy